Timeline of women's suffrage in Texas

Women's suffrage was brought up in Texas at the first state constitutional convention, which began in 1868.

However, there was a lack of support for the proposal at the time to enfranchise women.

In 1918, women gained the right to vote in Texas primary elections.

Poll taxes were outlawed in 1964 and the Voting Rights Act was passed in 1965, fully enfranchising Black women voters.

Throughout the 1910s, Eliza E. Peterson of Texarkana continues to speak around the country for the African American division of the WCTU of Texas.

Travis County women register to vote in the Texas primary election in July 1918.
Travis County women register to vote in the Texas primary election in July 1918.
Flier for a lecture by Mariana T. Folsom sponsored by the Texas Equal Rights Association . 1884.
Texas women march for women's suffrage in Washington, D.C. , on April 7, 1913.
Women voters broadside distributed in 1918.
Christia Adair